Resources
About the Lost Mural
Video
“Burlington’s Little Jerusalem” - Vermont Public Television - January 01, 2014
https://www.pbs.org/video/vermont-public-television-documentaries-little-jerusalem/
Dr. Samuel D. Gruber Lectures:
First lecture, November 9, 2013: “Chai Adam Mural: A Precious Link Between Old World and New” - Samuel D. Gruber, Ph. D.
Second lecture, November 10, 2013:“Rampant Lions & the Law Revealed: The Chai Adam Mural and the Intersection of Art, Memory and History” - Samuel D. Gruber, Ph.D.
Zoom Event, “Lost Mural Project Conservation Update,” August 2, 2021. Richard Kerschner, Conservation Coordinator
Vermont Historical Society Television Program. (History Interview) January 28,2021. “This Place in History: The Lost Mural” Part 1. Exploring the history of the Lost Mural at Ohavi Zedek Synagogue in Burlington for “This Place in History.”
Vermont Historical Society Television Program (Conservation Interview) February 4, 2021. Part 2, "This Place in History, Lost Mural Project,"
Lost Shul Mural Tour—Preparing for the Move Town Meeting TV Channel 17—4/6/15
Preservation Burlington: Lost Shul Mural Town Meeting TV Channel 17 —1/22/15
Local Matters: Lost Shul Mural Town Meeting TV Channel 17—11/1/13
Resistance Day of Learning Lectures Resistance Day of Learning at Ohavi Zedek
Dr. Samuel D. Gruber Blog post https://samgrubersjewishartmonuments.blogspot.com/2013/08/1910-synagogue-mural-revealed-in.html
10 Questions and Answers about the Lost Mural: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e-yATqQsqrXOK7xugKFF07RBNL0qOaZs/view?usp=drive_link
Teacher flier: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C241LBr29Mxw5IjeMbZ8W2lUg116xEoMTIMwVBg4mfQ/edit?usp=sharing
About Wooden Painted Synagogues
Powerpoint:
“Synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in the Russian Empire,” Vladimir Levin, Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University, Israel
Synagogues in Lithuania - Center Jewish Art lecture Beit Avi Chai.pdf
Research: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
YIVO educates the public about Jewish history and culture, and the American Jewish immigrant experience through its archives and exhibits and programs including art, concerts, lectures, music and Yiddish language classes and performances.
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, founded in Vilnius, Lithuania, and now based in New York City, is the world's largest archive dedicated to preserving the history and culture of East European Jewry, and preserving Yiddish language, literature and folklore in Eastern Europe, Russian and Germany.
YIVO has now developed the YIVO Encyclopedia comprising the history and culture of East European Jews from the beginnings of their settlement in the region to the present. This resource is available through an easy-to-use website.
For the YIVO Encyclopedia, visit encyclopedia.yivo.org
For more information on the East European painted wooden synagogues, including photos, video and articles, you can utilize this direct link to the YIVO Encyclopedia:
Books:
"Resplendent Synagogue: Architecture and Worship in an Eighteenth-Century Polish Community," Thomas C. Hubka, (Brandeis University Press, 2003).
Historical photographs, black & white and color illustrations, maps, diagrams, architectural drawings, historical analysis of art and architecture of synagogues.
"Wooden Synagogues," Z. Yargina, Masterpieces of Jewish Art Series, (Image Publishing House, 1993). Historical photos, architectural designs and drawings of lost wooden synagogues.
"Wooden Synagogues," Maria & Kazimierz Piechotka, (Arkady Publishing, 1959).
Historical photos, architectural designs and drawings of lost wooden synagogues.
The Yiddish Book Center celebrates Yiddish literature and culture to advance a fuller understanding of Jewish history and identity.
It includes temporary and permanent exhibits with Yiddish books; books within the Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library; the Sami Rohr Library of Recorded Yiddish Books; phonograph records; archival audio files; audio recorded talks and lectures from the Yiddish Book Center; the Wexler Oral History Project of oral histories of Yiddish speakers; East European Yizkor (memorial) books in partnership with the New York Public Library; and the Noah Corsen Library of Children’s Literature.
The Yiddish Book Center offers courses in the Yiddish language, and now displays a historic mural, called the “House of Israel Mural,” found in the attic of a former synagogue in North Adams, Massachusetts.
About the Copper Ark
Dr. Samuel Gruber Lecture https://vimeo.com/965044623?share=copy